Impact of the Holocaust

1933-1945. The Holocaust was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its World War II collaborators killed approximately six million European Jews. The victims included 1.5 million children and resulted in killing of two-thirds of the nine million Jews in Continental Europe.
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Liberation, Part 4
Episode 4

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Diny Adkins recalls being taken in by an elderly couple who later couldn't take care of her, so they took her to a nun. The nun kept her hidden in a closet and was very cold and mean to her. The nun...
Overview VII: Remembering and Forgetting | Holocaust
Overview VII: Remembering and Forgetting | Holocaust
Episode 7

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"When I tell the story of my life, it takes me quite a while to get back to normal. I get nightmares. I don't mind having nightmares in order that future generations can benefit from it." —Ben Stern...
Overview VI: Bystanders and Rescuers | Holocaust
Overview VI: Bystanders and Rescuers | Holocaust
Episode 6

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"No one had any compassion or any kind of a nice word to say to us. There was no one to say, 'It's going to get better,' or, 'Don't worry.' At no time had you the luxury of hearing anything like that...
Overview V: Resisters | Holocaust
Overview V: Resisters | Holocaust
Episode 5

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"You had to keep it in your mind: 'I'm going to live. I'm going to survive.' If you lost the will, that was it. You had to have a strong will to survive." —Pincus Kolender, Charleston, Advice on How...
Overview IV: The Holocaust
Overview IV: The Holocaust
Episode 4

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"One day we heard someting that was very disturbing to all of us. We heard for the first time about Auschwitz in Poland. That's where the killing was done. That we would be sent there, and that we...
Overview III: Prewar Nazi Germany | Holocaust
Overview III: Prewar Nazi Germany | Holocaust
Episode 3

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"I felt like this can't be happening. Why would it be happening? People acted worse than animals, and it was people I knew. What happens to people to bring something like this on?"—Trude Heller...
Overview II: Hitler's Rise | Holocaust
Overview II: Hitler's Rise | Holocaust
Episode 2

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In general the art of all great popular leaders at all times consists in not scattering the attention of a people but rather in concentrating it always on one single opponent. —from Mein Kampf by...